During our visit to the Blanton Museum on Thursday we analyzed Francisco de Goya’s series of prints including La tauromaquia (1815-1816)‚ Los desastres de la guerra (1810-1820)‚ Los disparates (1815-1823) and other paintings selected to be featured in the exhibit. The first room was headed by a self portrait of Goya in Traje de luces introducing the La tauromaquia series. I was taken aback when I walked into the first exhibit room and saw the amount of detail in each of Goya’s pieces. We can only
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If you are still trying to get over your last girlfriend‚ consider a stop at the Hollywood’s Museum of Broken Relationships. Sounds almost too weird to be real right? Well‚ it’s an actual museum and the theme is quite interesting. Over the past year fans have witnessed repeated break-ups and divorces in Hollywood‚ but this place offers more than a look at the famous relationship endings. Hollywood’s Museum of Broken Relationships is an exhibit where objects are identified as reminders in a time where
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Chronicles (1975)‚ where the author’s sense of alienation from both his Polish and Australian heritages stems from his own ambivalence towards his identity. In particular‚ the poems In the Folk Museum‚ and 10 Mary Street articulates his internal struggles during his teenage
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Little did we know‚ when we were sent on a field trip to the Ayala Museum‚ what we would see there. All that we were told was that it was an "educational field trip" and something to do with Filipiniana.net’s advocacy of anything and everything Filipino. So‚ we were really in for a treat when we set foot on the fourth floor of the museum and a short film started to play the moment we stepped inside the sliding doors. "Gold of Ancestors: Crossroads of Civilization"‚ it began‚ and went on to show some
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Read the following extract from reading 2.2 ‘Benin antiquities at the British Museum’ and look at Plates 3.1.14 British officers of the Benin punitive expedition with bronzes and ivories taken from the royal compound‚ Benin City‚ 1897 and 3.2.24 Display of Benin bronzes in the Sainsbury African Galleries‚ the British Museum‚ 2005 in the AA100 Illustration Book. How do the different contexts of display reflect different attitudes to the art of Benin? At the end of the 19th century‚ Africa was
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uMuseum trip 1) How have my field trip enriched my understanding of being a Singaporean? -The trip to the museum brought about an indelible experience. I understood the great history of Singapore and how our forefathers survived and fought through the World War 2. Being a Singaporean meant much more than just living a beautiful lion city‚ instead it is one with great history and commendable spirit of our forefathers that make us‚ Singaporeans proud of our country. 2) What have I learnt
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Did you know that a very famous art work got stolen back in 1990? A famous art work in the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum was stolen the night of March 1990.The artwork that was missing was Christ in the Storm on the Sea galilee Also in 1942‚ all of the illustrious poets were missing. The Poets notebooks were unsealed. The art work in the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum got stolen‚ it only took a whole two minutes for the criminal to steal the art work. It has been missing for twenty-five years
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European art. This was a copy of a Greek bronze statue of 430 B.C. by Polykleitos. Head‚ arms and legs from knees down‚ and tree trunk are ancient. Remainder of a figure is a cast taken from a marble copy found at Delos and now in the National Museum‚ Athens. This statue is in the round and also nude‚ just as most of the other Roman statues are and shows us respect and dignity from that time. His movements especially that of his arms‚ are easy and unrestrained. A tree trunk is also portrayed
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The Henderirum Museum is creating a new exhibit that deals with psychology of the mind and how it handles life experiences. The Art pieces can show symbolic representations of how the indivual minds process everyday events to extremely traumatizing ones. The exhibit will be focus on helping people see this events in a physical medium‚ inspiring people to observe theses changes in a different perspective. This commission asks for an art piece that asks for creative work on how the human nature deals
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Achilles and Ajax: The death of Achilles Achilles and Ajax depicting the death of Achilles‚ a Greek black figure amphora‚ currently in the University of Pennsylvania Museum‚ originally found in Orvieto‚ Italy‚ was most likely used as a funerary vessel to be placed on a tomb. In Greek culture it was common to illustrate significant events on vessels‚ including the death of Achilles. Achilles‚ considered immortal‚ was known as the best fighter of his time and his death was a shock to everyone.
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